Weird Al due at Majestic in October

“Weird Al” Yankovic has been parodying pop hits for more than 30 years, so he’s not exactly the flavor of the month anymore.

But Lady Gaga thinks he’s cool. So much so, that she considers “Perform This Way,” a parody of her hit “Born This Way,” a rite of passage for a pop star. And she overruled her management, which had at first denied his request to parody the tune.

That ought to be a selling point for Weird Al, who returns to town Oct. 18 for a show in the Majestic Theatre on his seemingly never-ending Alpocalypse Tour, which supports the 2011 “Alpocalypse” album that contains the Lady Gaga parody.

“Perform This Way” isn’t the only-Gaga-esque moment on the record, Al’s first since 2006’s “Straight Outta Lynwood” (which has the hilarious “White and Nerdy”). The obligatory polka medley, “Polka Face,” kicks off with a squeezebox snippet of her “Poker Face” before careening across Justin Bieber and Katy Perry territory.

Al promised that the Grammy-nominated “Perform This Way” video would be “beyond awesome and disturbing on many levels.” No kidding. Al’s head is superimposed on top of a dancer and a contortionist imitating Lady Gaga and wearing everything from her meat suit to bubbles to absolutely nothing. It certainly meets (sorry) that stated goal.

With 12 million in sales, 14 Grammy nominations and three wins, the squeezebox king from Lynwood, Calif., has come a long way since his “My Bologna,” his solo accordion take on The Knack’s “My Sharona,” wafted across San Antonio airwaves back in the late ’70s (a long-gone FM station — KZ100 or something like that — used to broadcast “The Dr. Demento Show” Sunday nights from 8-10).

Recorded in the men’s room of the campus radio station at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, “My Bologna” became a fixture on the Funny Five — the show’s top songs as requested by listeners each week. Al then jumped on Michael Jackson’s coattails, and the rest is squeezebox satire history.